![]() ![]() In Old Mill light acts similarly: while those things most common to our regular line of vision-the brush and trees across the middle of the painting-are shaded out, the sunlight itself asserts its presence and the dapple on the foreground becomes unordinarily vivid-worthy of investigation. ![]() We witness the phenomenon (without the difficulty of looking at the sun) in the breached horizon of Harman’s January, Okay. Einstein, in 1905, helped us understand why light does this. He captures the abstruse edges of shadows and that odd phenomenon in which light from the sun-and this is the point at which we often avert our eyes-bends over the horizon or around the branches of trees, forming a more complete sphere of light than we should (according to our intuition) be able to see. ![]() The paintings of David Anthony Harman often work contrary to our intuition of light. ![]()
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